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http://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-warren-and-wyndham-lathem-are-wanted-for-the-murder-of-trenton-cornell-duranleau-2017-8Police are hunting an Oxford University staffer and Northwestern professor over a Chicago murderhttp://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-warren-and-wyndham-lathem-are-wanted-for-the-murder-of-trenton-cornell-duranleau-2017-8
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 04:30:01 -0400Don Babwin
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5982df3327fa6b128a38e23b-813/chicagomurder.jpg" alt="Chicago murder suspects" data-mce-source="Anthony Guglielmi/Twitter" data-mce-caption="Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem (L) and Oxford University employee Andrew Warren." /></p><p></p>
<p>CHICAGO (AP) &mdash; Police are searching for a Northwestern University professor and a University of Oxford employee suspected in the stabbing death of a Chicago man and have alerted law enforcement agencies around the country that the pair should be considered armed and dangerous.</p>
<p>Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman, said Wednesday that a Cook County judge issued first-degree murder warrants for Wyndham Lathem, 42, and Andrew Warren, 56, in the killing of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau. Cornell-Duranleau, 26, was stabbed to death last week in a 10th floor apartment believed to be Latham's in the River North neighborhood.</p>
<p>Police have not released a possible motive or said how they linked the suspects to the killing, but Guglielmi said security camera footage shows them leaving the building that night.</p>
<p>Guglielmi said Lathem and Cornell-Duranleau knew each other, but he didn't know any details about the relationship. He said investigators determined that Warren, who lives in England, came to the U.S. recently for the first time, but he didn't know if Warren knew the victim.</p>
<p><img class="float_left" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5982df3427fa6b128a38e23d-1440/screen shot 2017-08-03 at 091142.png" alt="Trenton Cornell-Duranleau" data-mce-source="CBS Chicago/YouTube" data-mce-caption="Murder victim Trenton Cornell-Duranleau." data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQHZB3Sef0" /></p>
<p>Officers went to the apartment last Thursday night after the person working at the building's front desk called to report that he'd received an anonymous call about a crime having been committed in that unit. Cornell-Duranleau, who lived in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the city's lower West Side, was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner's office said he died of multiple sharp force injuries.</p>
<p>A Northwestern University spokesman, Alan Cubbage, said in a news release that the school is cooperating with the investigation and that Lathem has been placed on administrative leave and banned from entering school property. He said there is no indication that Lathem, an associate professor of microbiology-immunology who has been on the faculty since 2007, is a danger to anyone at the school.</p>
<p>Warren is a senior treasury assistant at Somerville College in England, which is part of Oxford University network, according to a university website.</p>
<p>According to an obituary posted by Cornell-Duranleau's family on the website of The Argus-Press of Owosso, Michigan, Cornell-Duranleau had a cosmetology license. The obituary doesn't say when Cornell-Duranleau came to Chicago, and the family didn't reply to calls seeking comment.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-warren-and-wyndham-lathem-are-wanted-for-the-murder-of-trenton-cornell-duranleau-2017-8#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-suspect-charged-with-murder-in-indiana-officers-killing-2017-8A suspect has been charged with murder in an Indiana police officer's killinghttp://www.businessinsider.com/ap-suspect-charged-with-murder-in-indiana-officers-killing-2017-8
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:04:00 -0400Rick Callahan
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5980ec8bb50ab126008b6488-584/screen shot 2017-08-01 at 50205 pm.png" alt="indianapolis indiana police officer lt. aaron allan" data-mce-source="YouTube/WTHR" data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODq9Y0ooHn4" /></p><p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) &mdash; A man charged Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a police officer in Indianapolis was dangling upside down in his overturned car following a crash when he suddenly became agitated as the officer tried to help him and opened fire, striking the officer 11 times, according to court documents.</p>
<p>Jason D. Brown, 28, was charged Tuesday with one felony count of murder in the July 27 slaying of Southport police Lt. Aaron Allan. He also faces a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. Authorities haven't disclosed a possible motive in the killing.</p>
<p>But a probable cause affidavit filed with the charges states that other officers and witnesses said Allan approached the overturned car, stuck his head inside and told Brown "to be calm and that help was on the way." The Indianapolis man became "hysterical," it states, before allegedly grabbing a handgun and opening fire, shooting Allan 11 times, including in the heart.</p>
<p>A man who was a passenger in Brown's car told officers he and Brown had just left a gas station when Brown inexplicably began driving at a high rate of speed, the affidavit states. Brown then began maneuvering around cars when his vehicle drove over a median, struck a curb and overturned in the yard in front of a home, with Brown hanging upside down inside, secured by his seatbelt.</p>
<p>The passenger was outside the overturned car, sitting on the grass, when the shooting occurred.</p>
<p>A nurse who stopped to help told officers that she told Brown not to move because he could further injure himself. She said that Brown "became very agitated and belligerent and began cussing" shortly before she heard several gunshots ring out.</p>
<p>Officers later found 13 baggies of suspected marijuana inside Brown's car, according to the affidavit.</p>
<p>Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said in a statement Tuesday that Allan's death was "a tragic loss for the community."</p>
<p>Allan, a 38-year-old father of two, was a six-year veteran of the police department in Southport, an enclave on Indianapolis' south side and he had nearly 20 years of law enforcement experience. His funeral is scheduled for Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in downtown Indianapolis.</p>
<p>Brown was hospitalized after two other officers opened fire on him following Allan's shooting. He suffered gunshot wounds to his face, left arm and right clavicle and remains hospitalized. He's scheduled for a Thursday initial court hearing on the charges.</p>
<p>A judge has ordered him held without bond. Court records do not list an attorney for Brown.</p>
<p>Brown doesn't have an <span>Indiana</span> criminal record of violence. His only previous criminal conviction stems from a 2013 misdemeanor marijuana possession arrest in Hendricks County, just west of Indianapolis, for which he was sentenced to 30 days in jail, according to a statewide online courts database.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/acting-dea-chief-condemns-trump-comments-police-brutality-force-2017-8" >DEA chief slams Trump's police remarks: 'We have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong'</a></strong></p>
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Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:41:00 -0400Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
<p><span><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/597fdafe4528e666038b50aa-2400/gettyimages-806011190.jpg" alt="crime scene" data-mce-source="Scott Olson/Getty Images">St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit </span><a href="https://www.thetrace.org/2017/01/chicago-not-most-dangerous-city-america/"><span>recorded the highest per capita</span></a><span> homicide rates of major American cities last year. Six months into 2017, it looks likely that they will maintain the dubious distinction. </span></p>
<p><span>Baltimore is on track to have the highest number of homicides per capita </span><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-atf-crime-20170501-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span>in the city’s history</span></a><span>. St. Louis faces its </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/us/st-louis-puzzles-over-stubbornly-high-murder-rate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span>highest rates since the crack wars of the 1990s</span></a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Most of this year’s homicides in the top three cities were committed with firearms, according to data obtained from the cities’ police departments. </span></p>
<p><span>In St. Louis, 96 percent of the 94 homicides recorded in the first half of the year were committed with guns. The same was true in 88 percent of Baltimore’s 170 homicides, and 81 percent of Detroit’s 136 homicides. The composition of gun homicides was essentially unchanged from the same period last year.</span></p>
<p><span>St. Louis recorded 90 gun homicides between January and June of this year; for Detroit, the total reached 110. The numbers are roughly equal to last year’s tallies, and put the cities on pace to match heightened rates of gun murders. Violence has spiked dramatically in Baltimore, where police recorded 149 gun homicides in the first half of the year — 26 more victims than during the same period in 2016.</span></p>
<p><span><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/597fd359b50ab1011c8b5c0f-1410/76044401.png" alt="76044401" data-mce-source="The Trace via Baltimore Police Department" data-link="https://www.thetrace.org/2017/07/gun-homicide-rates-baltimore-st-lous-detroit/"></span></p>
<p><span>Victims in Baltimore this year include a <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-scott-homicide-20170321-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">19-year-old senior at the Excel Academy</a>, shot in the face while trying to hail a cab — the school’s fifth slain student in 12 months. In April, a <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-pregnant-homicide-folo-20170417-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">28-year-old pregnant woman</a> was fatally shot by her husband. In June, a <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-wilson-vigil-20170616-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">37-year-old mother</a> was gunned down after she told police her son was being bullied. And then, earlier this month, came the murder of a <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-smith-homicide-20170704-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">24-year-old brother</a> of the police department’s spokesman, who took to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tjsmithmedia/posts/315569568870911" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a> to air his grief:</span></p>
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<p><span>Desperate residents and community activists have </span><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-ceasefire-20170718-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span>launched a campaign</span></a><span> for a 72-hour ceasefire on the first weekend of August. Their message: “Nobody kill anybody.”</span></p>
<p><span>Crime patterns dim the hopes for a reprieve. Monthly gun homicide numbers usually increase in the second half of the year, police data show.</span></p>
<p><span>Crime in the United States, including murder, has fallen dramatically nationwide since the 1990s. But in individual cities, and </span><a href="https://www.thetrace.org/2016/07/crime-rates-american-cities-murder-inequality/"><span>especially individual neighborhoods</span></a><span>, the picture looks different. According to an </span><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/new-analysis-crime-violence-and-murder-remain-near-historic-lows" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span>April 2017 report</span></a><span> by The Brennan Center, the left-leaning think tank, the 2016 murder rate for the 30 largest American cities increased by 14 percent from 2015.</span></p>
<p>Escalating levels of gun violence in some cities suggest that the national homicide rate — as well as the often overlooked rates for nonfatal shootings — may show a third consecutive bump when the final numbers are in for 2017. <span>A </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/27/trump-promised-to-end-the-american-carnage-gun-deaths-are-up-12-percent/?utm_term=.234197c3fa3b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><span>Washington Post</span></em></a><span> analysis of data collected by Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that tallies shootings through news articles and police reports, found that, in the first 200 days of the year, gun deaths have surged by 12 percent.</span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-i-saw-crime-reporter-chicago-2017-7" >I covered murders during Chicago's deadliest year in decades – here's what I saw</a></strong></p>
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Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:34:00 -0400Michelle Mark and Associated Press
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/597b9ea44528e68e268b468a-2000/ap17208060720679.jpg" alt="princess cruises alaska domestic dispute death" data-mce-source="Associated Press/Becky Bohrer" data-mce-caption="Passengers of the Emerald Princess cruise ship disembark on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska, hours after arriving at port." /></p><p>A Utah real estate agent killed on an Alaska cruise was remembered by her employer as a trusted adviser and valued sales associate.</p>
<p>Kristy Manzanares was found dead Tuesday night as the cruise ship Emerald Princess traveled between Ketchikan and Juneau.</p>
<p>Her husband, Kenneth Manzanares, was charged with murder after he was discovered with blood on his hands and clothes, and with blood spread throughout the cabin on the Princess Cruises ship, according to a criminal complaint by FBI Special Agent Michael L. Watson.</p>
<p>"Kristy was a dedicated and loving mother who juggled her business schedule to make her children the top priority," the statement from Summit Sotheby's International Realty in St. George, Utah, said.</p>
<p>Kristy Manzanares, 39, had a severe head wound, but authorities have declined to release other details in the case, including how many people were traveling with the couple on the 3,400-passenger Emerald Princess that left Sunday from Seattle.</p>
<p>A man and other people went into the room before medical workers and security officers had arrived and saw the woman on the floor covered in blood, according to court documents.</p>
<p>The man asked Manzanares what happened, and the suspect said, "'She would not stop laughing at me,'" according to the FBI complaint.</p>
<p>Manzanares then grabbed his wife's body and tried to drag her to the balcony, but the man stopped him, Watson wrote. The name of the man was not included in the complaint.</p>
<p>A ship security officer handcuffed Manzanares, who was held in a nearby cabin, authorities said.</p>
<p>While the FBI searched him, Manzanares said, "'My life is over,'" the complaint states.</p>
<p>Passengers aboard the ship at the time of the incident said they initially believed the commotion was a hoax as any had been attending a "murder mystery" themed dinner when an announcement was read over an intercom saying a "domestic altercation" had occurred.</p>
<p>"Whoever was talking was pretty scared because their voice was shaking," one passenger, Ruby Plata, told <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-cruise-death-domestic-dispute-princess-cruises-passengers/">CBS News</a>.</p>
<p>Another passenger, Chris Ceman, had been just across from the room the alleged murder took place.</p>
<p>"One of the little girls from that room came running out, calling for help, that her parents had been in a fight. She sounded pretty desperate, but the crew came up as quickly as they could," Ceman told CBS.&nbsp;"It became apparent last night that something serious had happened, but we didn't know how serious."</p>
<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/597b9f1c4528e672188b5405-2000/ap17208064739174.jpg" alt="princess cruises alaska domestic dispute death murder" data-mce-source="Associated Press/Becky Bohrer" data-mce-caption="Passengers from the Emerald Princess cruise ship wait on shore for excursions to explore the Juneau, Alaska area, Wednesday, July 26, 2017." /></p>
<p>Manzanares, 39, participated in his first court appearance Thursday by teleconference from Juneau, where he is in custody.</p>
<p>He appeared to be crying at times before the hearing and near the start, when U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin F. McCoy began speaking.</p>
<p>Manzanares dabbed at his eyes and nose with tissues.</p>
<p>He was wearing an orange jumpsuit during the proceedings. He had his ankles shackled and was wearing slip-on shoes.</p>
<p>McCoy appointed assistant Federal Defender Jamie McGrady to represent Manzanares. McGrady was not at the hearing and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>Bail has not been set and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for Aug. 10. McCoy approved change of venue from Anchorage to Juneau for further proceedings.</p>
<p>Manzanares has no criminal history, according to online Utah court records.</p>
<p>The ship was diverted to Juneau because of the investigation, which the FBI is leading because the death occurred in U.S. waters.</p>
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<p>Becky Bohrer reported from Juneau, Alaska. Contributing to this report were AP writer Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City and AP researcher Monika Mathur in New York.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tells-cops-not-to-be-too-nice-while-arresting-thugs-2017-7" >Trump to cops: 'Please don't be too nice' while arresting 'thugs,' and don't worry about their heads when you toss them in the 'paddy wagon'</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:56:40 -0400Noah Friedman and Josh Barro
<p><span>Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz and former OJ. Simpson lawyer stopped by Business Insider to talk to senior editor Josh Barro in September 2016. Dershowitz discussed how "The People v. O. J. Simpson" failed to include key information about the trial.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/dershowitz-people-miss-the-real-reason-oj-simpson-got-acquitted-2017-7#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/what-i-saw-crime-reporter-chicago-2017-7I covered murders during Chicago's deadliest year in decades – here's what I sawhttp://www.businessinsider.com/what-i-saw-crime-reporter-chicago-2017-7
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:33:00 -0400Daniel Brown
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5966f5da552be5b3008b46a0-1920/3 copy.jpg" alt="Chicago crime scene" data-mce-source="Daniel Brown" data-mce-caption="Chicago police guard a homicide scene." /></p><p></p>
<p>In 2016, Chicago experienced <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/01/05/week-in-review-killed-in-chicago-violence-35/">780 homicides</a>, making it the deadliest year in the city in nearly two decades.</p>
<p>The first homicide of the year came at 2:20 a.m. on New Year's Day in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on the South Side. Twenty-year-old DeAndre Holiday found himself on the wrong side of an argument half a mile from the edge of Washington Park when a man pulled out a handgun and shot him in the chest.</p>
<p>I got there just as the police were stringing up yellow tape around the scene.</p>
<p>I was a crime reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times then, tracking a never-ending string of shootings and violence. For more than a year, I had a police scanner near my desk and listened to the dispatcher say "we're getting a ticket of a person shot" and "shots fired," among other depressing crimes.</p>
<p>I was working the overnight shift that night, as I usually did, when the call went out over the scanner. "One of us should go," my coworker said.</p>
<p>When I got to the scene, it was silent, and a bitter wind ran through my overcoat. I walked up to the line looking for Holiday's body then saw it mangled in the street, partially covered by a white sheet.</p>
<p>One of the cops asked me to step back because the police were tying up an extra line. I walked to the darkened sidewalk and watched the tape blow in the wind and the blue lights bounce off the brick homes and disappear into abandoned lots.</p>
<p>The silence didn't last. One by one, I watched Holiday's friends and family members arrive in disbelief, then see his body. Devastation and raw emotion quickly overwhelmed them.</p>
<p><img class="float_left" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/596a3dc7c50c29a8008b4c7f-2400/gettyimages-806011160.jpg" alt="chicago homicide" data-mce-source="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Police search for evidence after a man was shot in the Little Village neighborhood on July 2, 2017 in Chicago" /></p>
<p>One woman kept screaming, "Who shot him? That's my baby's daddy!" A woman who appeared to be in her 70s wailed over and over "Wake up!" She yelled and screamed in a way I'd never heard before, as did the dozen or so others. Sometimes it was as if everyone were screaming at once.</p>
<p>The cops moved an SUV in front of Holiday's body, and an officer took the older woman's hand and led her away. At one point, gunshots rang out a few blocks away. No one &mdash; not the police or the friends or family &mdash; looked surprised.</p>
<p>That wasn't the first shooting I went to, but it was the first I had witnessed such devastation. I thought I knew how to handle myself after scenes like that, but when I got home, back to the world I'd known before, I felt numb.</p>
<h2><strong>A look I'll never forget</strong></h2>
<p>Last year, more than <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/01/07/508722463/gun-deaths-in-chicago-why-is-this-happening">4,000</a> people were shot in Chicago, and shootings have become so normalized that they rarely make the front page of the local papers, let alone the national news.</p>
<p>About a month after Holiday's killing, as the Super Bowl was playing and my friends were posting pictures of their parties on social media, I was in the Sun-Times newsroom listening to the scanner scrolling through police zones.</p>
<p>"All right, we're getting four people shot now," the dispatcher said. I pressed hold on the zone and listened. The dispatcher said the victims were all 15 years old. My editor told me not to go to the scene &mdash; no one was dead yet. But then I told her the ages.</p>
<p>I raced my car down the highway to the Englewood neighborhood, also on the South Side, where the shooting had happened. I found a woman who looked to be in her 30s standing on the sidewalk with a dazed disposition.</p>
<p><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/596a3f05c50c29ac008b4c3c-2400/gettyimages-661072146.jpg" alt="chicago crime homicide" data-mce-source="Joshua Lott/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="People grieve after a shooting that left four people dead at a restaurant on March 30, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois." /></p>
<p>She told me she ran outside after hearing gunfire and kids screaming and found eight or nine teenagers on a porch. Four of them &mdash; three boys and a girl &mdash; were shot, and all were crying. Some were throwing up. Thankfully, they all survived.</p>
<p>One of the kids told her that two men had walked up, asked "Are y'all good?" and then opened fire.</p>
<p>I could see fear and trauma in her eyes. As she talked to me, her kids peeked out from behind the white curtain of their first-floor apartment. They looked terrified too. I'll never forget that. I sensed that they were scared not only because of the shooting but also because she was talking to <em>me,</em> a journalist.</p>
<p>The neighbor seemed nervous to talk to me. She asked me not to use her name, like most witnesses I talked to after shootings, and spoke quietly, as though she wanted to make sure no one heard her.</p>
<p>It was only later that I learned the hard way that even appearing to give information to a journalist could be dangerous.</p>
<h2><strong>'You tryna get me killed?'</strong></h2>
<p>A few months later, I was in the office very late one day, or early, depending on how you look at it. I heard on the scanner that a male had been shot in the head. The dispatcher didn't call it a 0110 &mdash; the Chicago police code for homicide &mdash; but it sounded like one. I drove to the scene to find out.</p>
<p><strong><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5966de22552be5ad008b4683-1920/img0531.jpg" alt="Chicago homicide" data-mce-source="Daniel Brown" data-mce-caption="A Chicago police officer takes a picture of a homicide victim." /></strong></p>
<p>When I got there, a body was in the middle of the street, and there were only a few people around. I asked a guy walking down the sidewalk whether he knew what happened, and he told me something about where the shooters were standing.</p>
<p>"Over there?" I asked, pointing to a trash can.</p>
<p>"F--- you, man," he said. "You tryna get me killed?"</p>
<p>He stormed off. It dawned on me that, with one flick of the wrist, I may have put him, and possibly myself, in danger. I felt awful.</p>
<p>When I finally got to sleep that night, I dreamed that someone kept pointing a gun at me. I woke up screaming. I rushed to my computer, and there in my inbox was an email from a family member of the victim. The person was swearing at and threatening me.</p>
<h2><strong>I couldn't get the screams out of my head</strong></h2>
<p>By July, I was having trouble relating to my friends and family.</p>
<p>One night, I headed to a homicide scene in the neighborhood of Austin on the West Side. The trees were covering the city's notoriously golden street lamps, and it was really dark. The police had just taken the victim's body away and were taking down the yellow tape. I walked over to an older woman standing on the sidewalk.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/596a4082552be5ad008b4c26-2400/gettyimages-806011102.jpg" alt="chicago crime homicide" data-mce-source="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="People watch as police search for evidence after a man was shot in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago." /></p>
<p>When she and I finished talking, I walked over to three men standing on the side of the house where the victim had been killed. I had my camera on my shoulder and motioned as if I wanted to ask them some questions.</p>
<p>One of the men took one look at me and said, "You better get the f--- out of here." Another put his hand in his pants as though he had a gun holstered there. I had a sudden realization that all of the police officers had left the scene. The three of them started cursing at me and walking forward.</p>
<p>My heart started racing. I said "All right" and turned and walked at a brisk but steady pace to my car, trying to show neither fear nor disrespect. When I got to my car, I looked back and saw them down the street, still yelling at me. I felt stupid as hell.</p>
<p>I had been feeling weird since the New Year's Day shooting. For a day or two after visiting a scene, I would feel this peculiar kind of tunnel vision. It was as though I were looking at the world through a foggy television screen. I couldn't touch or focus on anything.</p>
<p>I couldn't get the screams out of my head. While they were all different, they were also all the same: the pain of losing someone to violence.</p>
<p>Few people in my life understood what was going on.</p>
<h2><strong>The socioeconomics of murder</strong></h2>
<p>It wasn't just the screams or the violence that made the scenes hard to process. The causes of violence were readily on display at almost every scene.</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/596a41b4c50c2931008b4c70-2400/gettyimages-635355532.jpg" alt="chicago crime homicide" data-mce-source="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Police monitor a vigil being held in the Park Manor neighorhood to honor 11-year-old Takiya Holmes who died today after being shot in the head by a stray bullet last Saturday on on February 14, 2017 in Chicago" /></p>
<p>Most shootings in Chicago happen in about 10 of the city's 77 neighborhoods, on the South Side and the West Side. Poverty, racism, lack of opportunities, and more were apparent at every scene, even in the smallest details. It made the suffering harder to process.</p>
<p>When I'd drive from the Sun-Times office downtown to the crime scenes, it was hard to miss the contrasts. The skyscrapers, plush condos, and designer stores gave way to run-down buildings, boarded-up schools and storefronts, and empty lots.</p>
<p>At one crime scene, where a 28-year-old had been shot dead on a sidewalk, a young boy walked up and down the sidewalk along the police tape. No older than 7, he would stop and stare at the body every so often. As far as I could tell, it seemed normal to him.</p>
<p>Another shooting I covered happened at a memorial event. Nearly 100 people had gathered to remember a friend killed on the block a few years prior when a man pulled out a gun and killed a man and a woman and injured two more. A 16-year-old girl at the memorial had an asthma attack during the shooting and died later at the hospital.</p>
<p>At another, a 16-year-old boy was shot in his car after a man walked up and asked where he was from. "I'm not about that," the boy's friends told me he said. The man pulled out a gun and shot him in the head.</p>
<p>"I just bought him a plane ticket to Mississippi, and now he's dead," the boy&rsquo;s mother told me.</p>
<p>It just felt as if bodies were piling up in my head.</p>
<h2><strong>Tired</strong></h2>
<p>This is just a small fraction of the scenes I saw in Chicago.</p>
<p>What's awful is that what I saw pales in comparison to what some reporters in the city have seen. And it certainly pales in comparison to what the victims, their families, and all those living in Chicago's hardest-hit neighborhoods have experienced.</p>
<p><img class="float_left" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/596a420c552be527008b4cb0-2400/gettyimages-635355546.jpg" alt="chicago crime homicide" data-mce-source="Scott Olson/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="A vigil is held in the Park Manor neighorhood to honor 11-year-old Takiya Holmes who died today after being shot in the head by a stray bullet last Saturday on on February 14, 2017 in Chicago." /></p>
<p>But by the time I put my two weeks in, I was tired of living in the dark.</p>
<p>I was tired of having to take two or three Xanax to fall asleep, only to black out and then suddenly wake up four hours later in a feverish sweat.</p>
<p>I was tired of the regular nightmares &mdash; my girlfriend at the time told me I would frequently scream in my sleep.</p>
<p>I was tired of hearing the dispatcher say, "We're getting a ticket of a person shot. Person shot."</p>
<p>I was tired of the constant guilt and I was tired of being threatened and screamed at by the people I was trying to help &mdash; though I certainly understood their anger and emotion.</p>
<p>It's been about eight months since I quit, and I'm still processing what I saw. I still get flashes of bodies or hear screams when I see flashing police lights or a broken car window.</p>
<p>I think about how that year affected me sometimes &mdash; how it made me feel numb, how I wore a scowl I couldn't seem to shake.</p>
<p>Then I think about what I might be like if I grew up in one of those neighborhoods I went to so often.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-chicago-feds-murder-rate-2017-7" >Trump's favorite target for anti-crime rhetoric may not deserve its violent reputation</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:51:49 -0400Business Insider
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/559fcfedecad04e51ff7425d-1200-706/rtx1juiv.jpg" alt="RTX1JUIV" border="0"></p><p>On July 11, 1995, over three years into the civil war in Bosnia, Bosnian Serb militants overran a UN-established safe zone in the eastern town of Srebrenica, separated about 8,000 Muslim men and boys from the women who had sought shelter in the area, led them into fields and warehouses in surrounding villages, and massacred them over the course of three days. It was the worst single atrocity in Europe since the end of World War II and is generally considered to be an act of genocide.</p>
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<p>With the support of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's government in Belgrade, the Bosnian Serbs — under the leadership of Radovan Karadzic, who is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/radovan-karadzic-criminally-responsible-for-genocide-at-srebenica" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">now serving 40 years for war crimes</a> — were attempting to liquidate Bosnia's Muslim population as part of an attempt to carve a "greater Serbia" out of the ruins of Yugoslavia, the polyglot communist state <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/breakup-yugoslavia">whose breakup into seven different countries</a> began in the early 1990s. Bosnia has sizable Muslim, Croat, and Serbian populations, and it was the one republic of Yugoslavia without a clear ethnic majority (see map at left).</p>
<p>Milosevic, Karadzic, and Bosnian Serb militants under the leadership of Ratko Mladic used ethnic cleansing to cleave off as much of Bosnia as possible for the Serbian-dominated remains of Yugoslavia.</p>
<p>The Srebrenica massacre was the inevitable result: an act of mass murder that conveyed the brutal message that Muslims weren't safe anywhere inside of the country and that the UN and the international community were unable or unwilling to protect them.</p>
<p>The UN had established a demilitarized zone in Srebrenica in 1993, creating an area where Muslims who had been forced out of their homes elsewhere in Bosnia could find safety from the Bosnian Serb onslaught.</p>
<p>Bosnian Muslim militants allied with the government in Sarajevo had carved out an enclave in eastern Bosnia surrounding the Srebrenica safe zone. The Serbs wanted to take this pocket of resistance, and their military leaders resented the UN providing shelter for displaced Muslims. A declassified CIA memo from the time described the handful of UN eastern safe zones as "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/04/how-britain-and-us-abandoned-srebrenica-massacre-1995">fish bones in the throat of the Serbs</a>."</p>
<p>The massacre had been <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18101028">planned in advance</a>. The week of the atrocity, Serbian forces had taken surrounding villages, forcing some 20,000 refugees inside the UN safe area. Serbian forces had also kidnapped 30 Dutch peacekeepers, a blunt instrument of blackmail and leverage over the Dutch peacekeeping force guarding the enclave. And they had started shelling Srebrenica on July 6, making it abundantly clear that they would not respect the UN's humanitarian safe area.</p>
<p>In the hours leading up to the killing, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/29/world/europe/ratko-mladic-fast-facts/">Mladic</a>, who is facing war-crimes charges, can be seen on video laughing and handing out candy to the troops in what veteran CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/europe/amanpour-srebrenica/">describes as</a> "one of the most chilling pieces of video I've ever seen in my life."</p>
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<p>The Serb forces were greatly aided by the international community's indifference. Though the UN wanted a peacekeeping deployment of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnALEecbZ-k">about 6,000</a> in the area, by the time of the massacre only <a href="http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/bosnia1095web.pdf">about 600</a> lightly armed Dutch troops were guarding the town. When Mladic and the Bosnian Serb army entered Srebrenica, the peacekeepers put up little resistance and even called off airstrikes when the Serbs threatened to kill their Dutch hostages. Peacekeepers were also later <a href="https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/619591996815097856">accused of destroying video evidence</a> of their inaction.</p>
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<p>Far from protecting vulnerable civilians, the "safe zone" had just concentrated them in a single location that the UN apparently had little intention of actually defending. But they weren't the only party at fault: <a href="http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/bosnia1095web.pdf">As a Human Rights Watch report from late 1995 recounts</a>, the NATO states remained complacent and indecisive even as the enclave's fall was imminent, despite the clearly genocidal intentions of the Serbian forces.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/55a02e1f6bb3f78039f7425b-1200-800/rtxfv9b.jpg" alt="Srebrenica" border="0">Serb forces started deporting all women and children from the enclave as soon as Srebrenica fell on July 11 and held nearly all of the area's Muslim males for "interrogation." More than 8,000 of them would be killed in the following days.</p>
<p><img style="line-height: 1.5em;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/559fd8b8eab8eaf30ef7425b-1200-800/screen%20shot%202015-07-10%20at%2010.36.16%20am.png" alt="Screen Shot 2015 07 10 at 10.36.16 AM" border="0">The massacre galvanized international opinion and led to a US and NATO intervention in Bosnia's civil war. Shortly after the killings, NATO bombs <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/timeline-1995-srebrenica-massacre-bosnia-32350123">started dropping bombs on Serbian positions</a>. In November 1995, Milosevic and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović signed the US-brokered Dayton Accords, which left Bosnia as a single country while creating an autonomous Serb "republic" behind the Bosnian Serb frontline, in areas that had been ethnically cleansed of their Muslim population (see above map).</p>
<p>The accords ended the conflict. But they led to an internal partitioning of Bosnia while arguably awarding Serb forces for their atrocities.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/55a034bcecad041d7bf7425e-1200-750/rtxfvjb.jpg" alt="srebrenica" border="0">Srebrenica played an outsize role in bringing about this indecisive end to the conflict. And the atrocity was on such a massive scale that victims are still being disinterred from mass graves in the area and identified.</p>
<p>Each year on the anniversary of the killings, the Bosnian government releases bodies that were recently discovered, in whole or in part, in the hills and fields that surround the town. The friends and relatives of the victims attend a mass funeral each year.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/559fcf4feab8ea065ff7425e-1200-800/rtx1jrft.jpg" alt="RTX1JRFT" border="0">Even 22 years later workers are still sifting through remains and trying to identify bodies, an attempt to restore some humanity to the more than 8,000 people killed at Srebrenica. According to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/world/europe/srebrenica-genocide-massacre.html?_r=0">The New York Times</a>, 6,930 bodies have been identified from 17,000 body parts found in dozens of mass graves. </p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/559fd937ecad04bc4df7425b-1200-924/srebrenicamassacre-massgravesite-potocari2007.jpg" alt="Srebrenica_Massacre_ _Mass_Gravesite_ _Potocari_2007" border="0">As Kathryne Bomberger, the director general of the <a href="http://www.ic-mp.org/news/why-we-are-excavating-the-dead-of-srebrenica/">International Commission for Missing Persons</a>, wrote in an editorial in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/09/srebrenica-20-years-on">The Guardian</a>: "Those who killed in Srebrenica in July 1995 believed they could get away with murder. They thought they could erase the identity of their victims permanently. They were wrong."</p>
<p>On May 26, 2011, Gen. Ratko Mladic <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/26/serbia.mladic/">was arrested and detained</a> in Serbia as a suspect in the massacre at Srebrenica. This past March, another <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/world/europe/srebrenica-massacre.html">eight soldiers were arrested</a> on suspicion of having participated in the killings.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/559fda43ecad04bf4df7425f-1200-800/rtr2n89r.jpg" alt="RTR2N89R" border="0">Srebrenica is still a source of controversy. In 2015, Russia <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/russia-vetoes-genocide-resolution-srebrenica-150708150057291.html">vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution</a> that would classify the Srebrenica massacre as a genocide. The Russian delegate cited war crimes on both sides of the war in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, stating that characterizing the killing as a genocide was "<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/russia-vetoes-genocide-resolution-srebrenica-150708150057291.html">anti-Serb</a>." But the International Court of Justice and many international observers have long since labeled the killings as genocidal.</p>
<p>The massacre is still an open wound for the UN and arguably for the entire international system it represents. In July 2014, a Dutch court <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/world/europe/court-finds-netherlands-responsible-for-srebrenica-deaths.html">found peacekeepers responsible</a> for the deaths of 300 people at Srebrenica, resolving one of several lawsuits connected to the massacre. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/04/how-britain-and-us-abandoned-srebrenica-massacre-1995">Recent research based on declassified CIA cables</a> alleges that Britain and US knew for six weeks that Srebrenica was close to falling to Serbian forces but decided not to intervene out of concern that the crisis would get in the way of ongoing peace negotiations.</p>
<p><img style="line-height: 1.5em;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/559fde08ecad042c60f7425d-1200-924/srebrenicamassacre-massacrevictim2-potocari2007.jpg" alt="Srebrenica_Massacre_ _Massacre_Victim_2_ _Potocari_2007" border="0"></p>
<p>The slow Western response, and the failure of the UN to prevent one of the worst single atrocities anywhere since World War II despite the presence of its peacekeepers, raise serious questions about how outside actors should intervention in regional conflicts. Srebrenica exposed the US, NATO, and the UN's fatal disorganization and indecision and raised still troubling questions about what the world's responsibilities should be when thousands of lives are in imminent danger.</p>
<p>What does it take for world powers to step in and stop human-rights abusers before they can commit Srebrenica-like atrocities? When should international actors step in? If they do decide to intervene, which moral and political responsibilities do they assume? Is a country ever obligated to rescue people when it doesn't have a clear strategic or political interest in doing so, and should the moral imperative of protecting innocents ever override all other concerns?</p>
<p>Even 22 years after Srebrenica, there's still no clear answer.</p>
<p><em>Armin Rosen composed an earlier version of this story.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/srebrenica-bosnia-genocide-2017-7#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-portis-considered-wanted-to-kill-financial-advisers-2017-6Former Redskins running back Clinton Portis says he considered killing his financial advisers after losing millionshttp://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-portis-considered-wanted-to-kill-financial-advisers-2017-6
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:10:00 -0400Tyler Lauletta
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/59541137d084cca0008b637d-1067/portis.jpg" alt="Clinton Portis Washington Redskins" data-mce-source="Greg Fiume/Getty Images" /></p><p></p>
<p>Former Redskins running back Clinton Portis had to be talked out of killing the financial advisers who he believed cost him millions he had saved for retirement, he said in <a href="https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/06/28/clinton-portis-financial-ruin-where-are-they-now">a profile by Sports Illustrated's Brian Burnsed</a> published Wednesday.</p>
<p>"It wasn't no <em>beat up</em>," Portis told Sports Illustrated. "It was <em>kill</em>."</p>
<p>The profile paints a dark picture of Portis in 2013, with his going as far as waiting in his car with a gun for one of the men he believed had wronged him. While he was extremely close to taking the life-changing action, a friend talked him out of it in the moment on the phone, urging him to turn his car around and go visit his family, according to Sports Illustrated:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"'You've already lost,' his friend told him, 'but the loss you would sustain [by killing someone] would be greater.'</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Prepared as he was to commit murder, sacrificing his freedom and his name for revenge, he never found whom he was looking for. But what if he <em>had</em> caught a glimpse before coming to his senses? What if their paths had crossed, there in the darkness? Portis doesn't hesitate: 'We'd probably be doing this interview from prison.'"</p>
<p>Portis in 2004 signed what at the time was the largest contract for a running back in NFL history, and he lived a famously lavish lifestyle that included multiple cars, homes, and suits, but Portis still held some money back for his and his family's future.</p>
<p>Years after retirement, Portis filed multiple lawsuits against advisers, whom he accused of leading him astray with investments that would fall apart and suck up millions of what Portis had saved for retirement. While his advisers were eventually barred from securities trading by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, they never saw jail time.</p>
<p>As the piece puts it:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"The hucksters he deemed most responsible ignored his calls. None were bound for jail. Their coffers were dry; a lawsuit seemed pointless. Once his helplessness gave way to rage, Portis lusted for a confrontation. He would meet this betrayer not with pleas or demands, or even blows delivered by thick fists attached to thick forearms. Bullets, he thought, were his sole means of balancing the scale."</p>
<p>You can read the story in its entirety <a href="https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/06/28/clinton-portis-financial-ruin-where-are-they-now">here</a>.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-sapp-donating-brain-to-research-football-2017-6" >Warren Sapp on effects of football on his brain: It's a 'frightening' and 'weakening' feeling 'because you feel like a child'</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:43:19 -0400Alex Lockie
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/594ac7b74a24891b008b489e-536/screen shot 2017-06-21 at 31846 pm.png" alt="nabra hassanen memorial fire" data-mce-source="WTTG" data-mce-caption="Charred remains of a memorial to Nabra Hassanen." /></p><p>A South Carolina man has been arrested after a memorial for Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Virginian who was killed while walking home from a mosque with her friends on Sunday, was set on fire, <a href="http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/262878455-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a Fox News affiliate reports</a>.</p>
<p>Thousands of mourners had gathered in Virginia in an outpouring of support for the teen, who was described as bright and generous by those who knew her, according to The Associated Press.</p>
<p>But flowers left at Hassanen's memorial at the Dupont Circle fountain in Washington, DC, were set ablaze on Wednesday. Police have arrested 24-year-old Jonathan Solomon of South Carolina in connection with the incident.</p>
<p>"At this time, the incident does not appear to be motivated by bias," a police spokeswoman <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-sets-fire-memorial-slain-virginia-teen-nabra-hassanen-article-1.3266085" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told the New York Daily News</a>.</p>
<p>Police told the Fox News affiliate that Solomon was setting several items in the park on fire and didn't appear to be targeting the memorial.</p>
<p>Darwin Martinez Torres, a 22-year-old from Sterling, Virginia, has been charged with murder in connection with Hassanen's death. Police say Hassanen was killed after a traffic dispute and that the cause of the killing was "road rage."</p>
<p>"It appears that the suspect became so enraged over this traffic argument that it escalated into deadly violence," Julie Parker, a spokeswoman for the Fairfax County Police Department, told a news conference, according to Reuters.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nabra-hassanen-memorial-fire-2017-6#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/r-muslim-teen-assaulted-outside-us-mosque-found-murdered-in-virginia-2017-6A teenage Muslim girl was found dead after being abducted leaving a mosque in Virginiahttp://www.businessinsider.com/r-muslim-teen-assaulted-outside-us-mosque-found-murdered-in-virginia-2017-6
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 03:57:00 -0400
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/59478387e592ed51008b5144-1333/all dulles area muslim society adams.jpg" alt="All Dulles Area Muslim Society ADAMS" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz" data-mce-caption="A member of the congregation arrives for Jum'a, the Friday prayer, at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center in Sterling, Va., Friday, Dec. 18, 2015." /></p><p>A 17-year-old American Muslim girl was beaten and abducted after leaving a mosque in Virginia on Sunday by a man who the police later arrested on suspicion of murder after her body was found dumped in a pond, authorities said.</p>
<p>The attack spurred an outpouring of grief and horror in a Muslim community that has been gathering to pray at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque about 30 miles outside Washington in observance of the last 10 days of Ramadan.</p>
<p>The attack happened early Sunday after the victim and several friends walking outside the mosque got into a dispute with a motorist in the community of Sterling, the Fairfax County Police Department said in a statement.</p>
<p>At one point, the motorist got out of his car and assaulted the girl, the police said.</p>
<p>The teen was reported missing by her friends who scattered during the attack and could not find her afterward, touching off an hours-long search by authorities in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.</p>
<p>At about 3 p.m., the remains of a female believed to be the teen victim were found in a pond in Sterling, the police said.</p>
<p>During the search for the missing teen, authorities stopped a motorist "driving suspiciously in the area" and arrested the driver, later identified as identified as Darwin Martinez Torres, 22.</p>
<p>The police obtained a murder warrant that charges Torres for her death, the Fairfax County Police Department said.</p>
<p>A police spokeswoman told reporters the attack followed some sort of dispute between the man and the girls, and authorities had not ruled out hate as a motivation for the attack.</p>
<p>The number of anti-Muslim bias incidents in the US jumped by 57% in 2016 to 2,213, up from 1,409 in 2015, the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group said in a report last month.</p>
<p>While the group had been seeing a rise in anti-Muslim incidents before President Donald Trump's stunning rise in last year's primaries and November election victory, it said the acceleration in bias incidents was due in part to Trump's focus on militant Islamist groups and anti-immigrant rhetoric.</p>
<p>In an incident in London on Monday, a van plowed into worshippers leaving a mosque, killing at least one person and injuring several in what Britain's largest Muslim organization said was a deliberate act of Islamophobia.</p>
<p>Isra Chaker, a person who said in a Facebook post that she was close to a family friend of the victim in the Virginia incident, said the driver came out with a baseball bat and began swinging it at the girls, Chaker said.</p>
<p>"She then went missing (presumably kidnapped/moved by the suspect) and was found dead this afternoon," Chaker said.</p>
<p>An online fund-raiser for the girl's family had raised $61,606 by Sunday evening.</p>
<p>The police said a medical examiner would conduct an autopsy to confirm the victim's identity and cause of death, though detectives believe the body found in the pond was the missing girl.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Robert Birsel)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-muslim-teen-assaulted-outside-us-mosque-found-murdered-in-virginia-2017-6#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-nypd-sergeant-who-killed-mentally-ill-woman-is-arrested-2017-5The NYPD sergeant who fatally shot a mentally ill woman has been arrested on a murder chargehttp://www.businessinsider.com/ap-nypd-sergeant-who-killed-mentally-ill-woman-is-arrested-2017-5
Wed, 31 May 2017 13:33:00 -0400Colleen Long And Jennifer Peltz
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5809392b8d83b400018b5db5-720/danner.jpg" alt="danner" data-mce-source="Facebook"></p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — A police sergeant has been indicted by a New York City grand jury on a murder charge in the shooting of a 66-year-old mentally ill woman, a death the mayor called tragic and unacceptable.</p>
<p>Sgt. Hugh Barry was arrested Wednesday in Deborah Danner's October death, police said. He was awaiting an arraignment in Bronx court. A spokesman for his union called the charges ridiculous.</p>
<p>Police were responding to a 911 call about an emotionally disturbed person when Barry, who has been with the New York Police Department for eight years, encountered Danner in her Bronx apartment.</p>
<p>Authorities said at the time that Danner was threatening the sergeant with a bat when he shot her.</p>
<p>Officers had been called to Danner's home several times before to take her to the hospital during psychiatric episodes and had been able to take her away safely, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the time.</p>
<p>On Oct. 18, Barry persuaded Danner to drop a pair of scissors she had been holding, police said. But when she picked up the bat and tried to strike him, he fired two shots that hit her torso, they said.</p>
<p>The police commissioner and mayor have condemned the shooting. They say he had a stun gun but didn't use it.</p>
<p>Sgt. Ed Mullins, the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said Barry "did not go to work intending to kill anyone." He called the murder charge "obscene."</p>
<p>Barry, an eight-year member of the department who had never fired his weapon before, was also charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, police said.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/deborah-danner-essay-mental-illness-2016-10" >Mentally ill woman wrote a heartbreaking essay foreshadowing her own death at hands of police</a></strong></p>
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Mon, 29 May 2017 11:05:45 -0400Peter Jacobs and Alex Lockie
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/592c375679474cc32c8b4ad6-994/donald trump.jpg" alt="Donald Trump" data-mce-source="AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool" data-mce-caption="U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a working session with outreach countries and international organizations, at the G7 Summit, Saturday, May 27, 2017, in Taormina, Italy."></p><p>President Donald Trump condemned Friday's deadly knife attacks in Portland, Oregon, in a tweet Monday morning.</p>
<p>"The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance," <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/869204433418280961">Trump tweeted</a>. "Our prayers are w/ them."</p>
<p>53-year old&nbsp;Ricky John Best, a US Army veteran of 23 years, and 23-year old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, a recent college graduate, were allegedly killed Friday by&nbsp;Jeremy Christian. The attack took place&nbsp;on a&nbsp;light-rail train in Portland.</p>
<p>Christian was "ranting and raving"&nbsp;at two young Muslim women with "hate speech or biased language,” according to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEX0J-1b_JI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Portland police</a>.</p>
<p>A third victim,&nbsp;21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, suffered traumatic injuries but is receiving care and expected to recover.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-condemns-portland-knife-attacks-2017-5#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-white-house-gut-renovated-truman-renovation-2017-1">The White House is undergoing renovations — here's how it changed after a massive facelift in the 1950s</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/portland-knife-attack-victims-2017-5The 2 men who were killed in a Portland knife attack have been identifiedhttp://www.businessinsider.com/portland-knife-attack-victims-2017-5
Sat, 27 May 2017 21:53:23 -0400Alex Lockie
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/592a278779474c1c008b4e24-480/jeremy christian portland knife attacker.jpeg" alt="jeremy christian portland knife attacker" data-mce-source="Portland Police Bureau" data-mce-caption="Jeremy Christian." data-link="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=58149&amp;ec=1&amp;ch=twitter"></p><p>The victims of a knife attack on a&nbsp;light-rail train in Portland, Oregon, on Friday afternoon have been identified as a 53-year old&nbsp;Ricky John Best, a US Army veteran of 23 years, and 23-year old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, a recent college graduate.</p>
<p>The victims, identified by the Portland police and profiled by <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/max_stabbing_victim_was_portla.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Oregonian</a> and <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/these-are-the-victims-of-the-portland-train-stabbing-attack?utm_term=.rvAbvJAPmb#.jqqN2qo37N" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buzzfeed</a>, died trying to deescalate a situation where&nbsp;Jeremy Christian was "ranting and raving"&nbsp;at two young Muslim women with "hate speech or biased language,” according to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEX0J-1b_JI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Portland police</a>.</p>
<p>A third victim,&nbsp;<span>21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, suffered traumatic injuries but is receiving care and expected to recover.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>Christian&nbsp;will be&nbsp;arraigned on Tuesday. The two women who were the subject of Christian's initial outburst made it through the incident physically unharmed, in part due to the efforts of the men who intervened and lost their lives.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/portland-knife-attack-victims-2017-5#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-uss-gerald-r-ford-aircraft-carrier-nimitz-2017-7">How the US's futuristic new aircraft carrier will change naval warfare forever</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/driver-who-ran-over-times-square-pedestrians-is-due-in-court-on-friday-2017-5Driver who ran over Times Square pedestrians is due in court on Fridayhttp://www.businessinsider.com/driver-who-ran-over-times-square-pedestrians-is-due-in-court-on-friday-2017-5
Fri, 19 May 2017 10:37:25 -0400Jonathan Allen
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/591f022c6391471b008b4f37-1699/2017-05-19t140751z1lynxnped4i11qrtroptp4new-york-crash.jpg" alt="Richard Rojas" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Stephanie Keith" data-mce-caption="Richard Rojas is escorted from the 7th precinct by New York City Police officers after being processed in connection with the speeding vehicle that struck pedestrians on a sidewalk in Times Square in New York City."></p><p>The U.S. Navy recruit who drove his car along a crowded Times Square sidewalk, killing a young woman and injuring many others, is due to appear in court in Manhattan on Friday to face charges of murder, attempted murder and vehicular homicide.</p>
<p>Richard Rojas, 26, knocked pedestrians into the air as he sped for three blocks in his burgundy Honda sedan through one of the city's busiest areas on Thursday before crashing into a metal stanchion, the New York Police Department said.</p>
<p>Rojas, who is from the Bronx area of New York City, had been arrested twice for drunken driving, in 2008 and 2015, and once this month on a charge of menacing for threatening another man with a knife, police said.</p>
<p>Police said Rojas was evidently intoxicated on Thursday. He was initially taken to a nearby hospital after he was detained.</p>
<p>"We know he had something in his system, but we haven't had the toxicology back yet," said police department spokesman Adam Navarro</p>
<p>City officials do not consider the incident an act of terrorism, Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a visit to the scene on Thursday.</p>
<p>Police said the young woman killed on the sidewalk was Alyssa Elsman, 18, who was on vacation with her family from Michigan. Twenty-two people were injured.</p>
<p>Rojas was due to appear in Manhattan's criminal court on Friday to be arraigned on one count of second-degree murder, five counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and 20 counts of attempted murder.</p>
<p>Although only one person was killed, a driver can face multiple counts of vehicular homicide under New York law if other people are seriously injured. It was unclear if Rojas has a lawyer.</p>
<p>Navy records show Rojas enlisted in September 2011 and was based in Illinois and Florida, working as an electrician's mate fireman apprentice.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/591deb9534911b20008b4c1d-2400/rtx36g19.jpg" alt="times square car" data-mce-source="REUTERS/Mike Segar" data-mce-caption="A vehicle that struck pedestrians and later crashed is seen on the sidewalk in Times Square in New York City, May 18, 2017." data-link="https://pictures.reuters.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&amp;ALID=2C0BF1SJGJV_G&amp;PBC=2CKRYD1D1D1:2C0BF1SJGJV_G#/SearchResult&amp;ALID=2C0BF1SJGJV_G&amp;PBC=2CKRYD1D1D1:2C0BF1SJGJV_G&amp;VBID=2C0BX47SGQ7Y&amp;POPUPPN=1&amp;POPUPIID=2C0BF1SJ1VXYD"></p>
<p>He was arrested a year later at a naval base in Jacksonville, Florida, where officials said he attacked a cab driver, shouted "my life is over," and threatened to kill police, according to court records. Rojas was charged at the time with misdemeanor battery and resisting an officer without violence, but it was unclear how the case was resolved.</p>
<p>Navy records show he spent two months in a military prison in Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 2013, but did not say why. He left the Navy in May 2014.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/driver-who-ran-over-times-square-pedestrians-is-due-in-court-on-friday-2017-5#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-suspect-in-doctors-slayings-once-worked-at-their-posh-condo-2017-5Former security guard suspected of killing two Boston doctors in their luxury condohttp://www.businessinsider.com/ap-suspect-in-doctors-slayings-once-worked-at-their-posh-condo-2017-5
Tue, 09 May 2017 09:44:00 -0400
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/58d144d6112f701c008b5a9c-1350/istock000018798266xxxlarge.jpg" alt="Boston" data-mce-source="Courtesy of TripAdvisor"></p><p></p>
<p>BOSTON (AP) — Police say the man suspected of killing two engaged Boston doctors in their luxury penthouse condominium once held a security job there.</p>
<p>The Boston Globe says a Boston Police Department report indicates that Bampumim Teixeira worked at the complex sometime before 2016. There was no evidence that he was employed there recently.</p>
<p>The 30-year-old Teixeira is charged with two counts of murder in the Friday deaths of Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr. Richard Field.</p>
<p>His attorney entered no- guilty pleas on his behalf during his arraignment Monday at the hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds suffered during a standoff with police.</p>
<p>Responding officers found the victims bound and dead. A black bag of jewelry was also found inside their unit.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/comeys-testimony-huma-abedin-emails-2017-5" >The FBI is scrambling to correct some of James Comey's testimony on Hillary Clinton's emails</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 02 May 2017 04:58:41 -0400Hatty Collier
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/59084aaadd089585708b49ec-2000/gun2.jpg" alt="Gun" data-mce-source="Getty Images"></p><p>The shocking extent of <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime">gun crime in London</a> was laid bare today as new figures revealed one person was killed or seriously injured in a shooting every three days in the capital last year.</p>
<p>Met Police statistics show 12 people were shot dead last year, while 89 sustained serious injuries.</p>
<p>The statistics, obtained by the Standard under Freedom of Information rules, showed that the total number of people threatened, shot at, injured or killed in a shooting rose by almost 80 per cent, compared to 2015 when there were 10 deaths, 52 serious injuries and 322 fewer serious offences.</p>
<p>The figures come <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/top-surgeon-tells-of-devastation-caused-by-handguns-used-by-london-gangs-a3525576.html">as a top surgeon issued a warning over the handguns used by London street gangs</a> which fire low-velocity rounds, causing devastating injuries to victims.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/59084aaadd089585708b49ed-1200/rtx2r8ds.jpg" alt="Illegal guns seized by police in Britain are displayed at the National Crime Agency headquarters in London, Britain, October 31, 2016." data-mce-source="REUTERS / Estelle Shirbon" data-mce-caption="Illegal guns seized by police in Britain are displayed at the National Crime Agency headquarters in London, Britain, October 31, 2016."></p>
<p>Last year, a total of 691 people were threatened with a gun, shot at, injured or killed in a firearms incident in London.</p>
<p>Twenty-seven people are believed to have been killed in shootings and stabbings in London so far this year, compared with 20 by this time in 2016.</p>
<p>Criminals fired a weapon on 744 occasions in the capital in 2016, compared with 427 the previous year – a rise of more than 74 per cent.</p>
<p>Senior Scotland Yard detectives said the rise in gun crime had led to a new initiative, Operation Viper, being set up to ensure Trident officers could provide a faster response to firearms incidents.</p>
<p>Police said by expanding tactics, in the past two years 1,400 firearms have been seized by police from the streets of the capital, including 93 handed in during a one-week gun amnesty in February.</p>
<p>Newham is the worst affected borough with 56 offences recorded in which a person was threatened with a gun, shot at, injured or killed in a shooting, followed by Hackney with 39 and Havering with 38.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/59084aaadd089585708b49ee-1713/pa-29530005 1.jpg" alt="london police terror" data-mce-source="Charlotte Ball//PA Images" data-mce-caption="Armed police outside Buckingham Palace in London during the Changing of the Guard, as police stepped up protective measures following the Berlin terror attack."></p>
<p>They are followed by Waltham Forest (35) and Lambeth (33).</p>
<p>In terms of injuries, Brent had the worst record last year with two deaths and eight serious injuries.</p>
<p>So far this year, three people have been shot dead in London, all of them teenagers. In the first four months of last year just one person was fatally shot.</p>
<p>In March, sixth form student <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/david-adegbite-tributes-to-loving-boy-shot-dead-by-gang-on-barking-estate-a3494931.html">David Adegbite, 18</a>, was gunned down on a housing estate in Barking and then two days later 19-year-old <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/abdifatah-sheikhey-murder-three-men-charged-over-fatal-shooting-of-teenager-in-ilford-a3503551.html">Abdifatah Sheikhey</a> was shot at close range as he sat in a Mercedes car in a street in Ilford.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/two-teenagers-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-after-16yearold-karim-samms-shot-dead-in-north-a3515116.html">16-year-old Karim Samms was shot dead</a> as he met a friend on his way home in North Woolwich. Another man in his 20s was also shot and injured in the reported drive-by shooting.</p>
<p>The teenager was about to become a qualified fitness instructor at Fight for Peace, a nearby boxing academy which trains and educates youths to keep them out of gangs.</p>
<p>Jacob Whittingham, head of programmes at the academy, told the Standard he feared the capital’s gun crime rate could be even higher as young people often feel too afraid to report incidents.</p>
<p><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/59084aaadd089585708b49ef-2100/rtsdgtq.jpg" alt="guns uk" data-mce-source="Reuters/Andrew Yates" data-mce-caption="Greater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable, John O'Hare, poses with guns from a previously held firearms surrender, at the launch of the new North West firearms surrender initiative, at Police Headquarters in Manchester, Britain April 4, 2016."></p>
<p>He said he believed that high levels of youth unemployment in deprived areas of London meant that teenagers were either "taking their frustrations out on each other" or turning to criminal activities to support their families.</p>
<p>The academy, where Karim trained regularly, uses boxing and martial arts to realise the potential of young people in communities affected by crime and violence and also offers educational courses.</p>
<p>Mr Whittingham added: "Karim was a huge personality. He was loved and respected. He was a person who trained with us regularly and he worked in a restaurant in south-east London.</p>
<p>"He was an example of what hard work and positivity can achieve. It’s been very tragic, shocking and traumatic for everyone but the way we have responded at the academy has been very positive."</p>
<p>Sophie Linden, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime said: "These figures are deeply worrying, and the Met has set up specific operations to drive down gun crime, with officers targeting known offenders and taking guns off the capital’s streets.</p>
<p>"Our new Police and Crime Plan also restores real neighbourhood policing, with more officers working in our local areas to fight crime and help keep Londoners safe."</p>
<p>Detective Superintendent Tim Champion, of the Met’s Trident and Area Crime Command, said: "Following an increase in the number of gun crime incidents, Operation Viper was set up in May 2016.</p>
<p>"This has led to Trident officers being deployed in areas of high gun discharges and helped to provide an even faster response to firearms incidents.</p>
<p>"Trident officers have also proactively targeted known gun crime offenders and carried out intelligence-led weapon sweeps.</p>
<p>"In the past two years, Met officers have taken more than 1,400 firearms off the capital’s streets, including 93 handed in during a one-week gun surrender in February.</p>
<p>"The Met has also used the DIVERT programme to steer young people away from gun crime and into employment or development."</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/1-person-killed-or-seriously-injured-by-guns-every-3-days-in-london-2017-5#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-inside-pimple-pus-bacteria-acne-2017-8">All the nasty things inside a pimple — and why you should stop popping them</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/police-use-data-from-a-fitbit-to-charge-victims-husband-with-murder-2017-4Police pieced together that a husband may have murdered his wife based on her Facebook posts and Fitbit datahttp://www.businessinsider.com/police-use-data-from-a-fitbit-to-charge-victims-husband-with-murder-2017-4
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:00:30 -0400Veronika Bondarenko
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5901049b7dea7265008b4599-2400/ap17115402824892.jpg" alt="Richard Dabata" data-mce-source="Mark Mirko (Associated Press)" data-mce-caption="Richard Dabate, center, appears with attorneys Hubie Santos, left, and Trent LaLima, right, while being arraigned, in Rockville Superior Court."></p><p>A murdered woman's FitBit data&nbsp;led Connecticut police to&nbsp;arrest her husband in connection with the&nbsp;death,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-ellington-murder-fit-bit-20170422-story.html">the Hartford Courant reports</a>.</p>
<p>In December 2015, Connie Dabate was shot in her home with a .357 Magnum&nbsp;that her husband, Richard Dabate, 40, had bought a few months before.</p>
<p>After more than a year of&nbsp;investigations, the Hartford police charged Dabate with his wife's murder, tampering with physical evidence, and making false statements to the police.&nbsp;He is currently out on bail but due to appear in court on Friday, April 28.</p>
<p>The couple had been fighting over money for several months and, in November 2015, Dabate texted his girlfriend that he and Connie were getting "a slow-moving divorce."</p>
<p>At the time of her death, Dabate <a href="http://www.trbas.com/media/media/acrobat/2017-04/70017417023900-15142925.pdf">told police</a> that his wife was murdered by a "tall, obese man" that broke into their home and chased Connie into the basement before shooting&nbsp;her dead.</p>
<p>Police dogs did not pick up the scent of an armed intruder however. The data&nbsp;obtained from Connie's&nbsp;FitBit exercise tracker showed investigators that she was moving&nbsp;around nearly an hour&nbsp;after her husband said she had been killed.</p>
<p><span>The police used&nbsp;"alarm system, computers, cellphones, social media postings and Connie Dabate's Fitbit to create a timeline that contradicted Richard Dabate's statements to police," the case's warrant <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/police-solve-connecticut-murder-clues-fitbit-activity-article-1.3094802">said</a>.</span></p>
<p><span>"To say it is rare to use Fitbit records would be safe," Lancaster, Pa., district attorney Craig Stedman told the Hartford Courant.</span></p>
<h2>Here are how the conflicting murder narratives&nbsp;unfolded:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Dabate initially told investigators that he left&nbsp;the house for work at 8:30 a.m on Dec. 23.</li>
<li>Dabate claimed&nbsp;that, after getting a house alarm notification on his phone, he&nbsp;got back around&nbsp;9 a.m. when he "saw a masked man — about 6-foot-2 and stocky with a Vin Deisel voice 'looking through things' in the walk-in closet."&nbsp;</li>
<li>At&nbsp;8:46,&nbsp;data from the Fitbit&nbsp;showed that Connie left to drive&nbsp;for a spinning class at the local YMCA.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Computer data showed that&nbsp;Dabate sent an email telling his boss that he would be late at 9:04 and, by 9:18, checked the page with the class schedules on the website of the YMCA.</li>
<li>Security&nbsp;cameras indicated that Connie left the center at 9:18 and, through evidence from the FitBit data, started walking again at 9:23 a.m (alarm&nbsp;records indicate that the couple's garage door was opened at the same time.)</li>
<li>Connie&nbsp;posted two Facebook videos and sent a message to a friend between 9:40 and 9:46&nbsp;from her home's IP address&nbsp;before, at 10:05, making her&nbsp;last registered movement on&nbsp;the FitBit.&nbsp;</li>
<li>At 10:11 a.m., Dabate's key fob set off the panic alarm&nbsp;for their home's security system, which&nbsp;placed an emergency call to the police by 10:16. It was only at 10:20 that Dabate himself made a 911 call to the&nbsp;police about his wife's death.</li>
</ul><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-murder-suspect-posts-35m-bail-upsetting-victims-family-2017-4" >Chinese real estate tycoon accused of orchestrating murder of child's father posts $35 million bail</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:58:26 -0400
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/58f6b993c75d4a1b008b5612-2191/2017-04-18t211510z1lynxmped3h1edrtroptp4california-shooting.jpg" alt="Kori Ali Muhammad is seen in an undated photo released by Fresno Police in Fresno" data-mce-source="Fresno Police Department/Handout via REUTERS" data-mce-caption="Kori Ali Muhammad is seen in an undated photo released by Fresno Police in Fresno" data-link="http://mediaexpress.reuters.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2017%3Anewsml_LYNXMPED3H1ED%3A1&amp;search=all%3Afresno"></p><p>FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The black suspect in a racially motivated shooting rampage in Fresno was charged Wednesday with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of white men he targeted randomly on the street, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>The charges come just over a week after Kori Ali Muhammad was charged with killing a white motel security guard days before the rampage. Muhammad told investigators that learning he was wanted for that slaying led him to try to kill as many white people as possible before he was caught.</p>
<p>Police say Muhammad, 39, laughed as he explained in police interviews how he shot men sitting in a utility truck, carrying a bag of groceries and waiting for a bus in the same neighborhood on April 18.</p>
<p>Kori Ali Muhammad also was charged with three counts of attempted murder for those he shot at but didn't hit, one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle and possession of a firearm, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>Muhammad faces a death sentence or life in prison if convicted, Fresno District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp said in a statement.</p>
<p>Muhammad was supposed to be told of his initial first-degree murder charge in court last Friday, but it didn't happen as he yelled out, "Let black people go!" and a phrase similar to "in reparations" that was not clearly enunciated.</p>
<p>His court appointed lawyer, Eric Christensen, then told the judge: "I believe this gentleman may not be mentally competent to proceed."</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/59012a442f6ae479018b46ab-800/killing-of-three-white-men-in-california-city-racially-motivated-police-2017-4.jpg" alt="A road is blocked by police tape after a multiple victim shooting incident in downtown Fresno, California, U.S. April 18, 2017. Fresno County Sheriff/Handout via REUTERS" data-mce-source="Thomson Reuters" data-mce-caption="A road is blocked by police tape after a shooting incident in downtown Fresno"></p>
<p>Muhammad shouted again, and the judge canceled the hearing, setting bail at $2.6 million and ordering a mental evaluation. Christensen declined to comment further after the hearing.</p>
<p>The killings began at a Motel 6 where the defendant got into an argument with unarmed security guard Carl Williams. Muhammad told authorities that he shot Williams because the guard showed him disrespect while he visited a woman.</p>
<p>He ran away and hid in a ravine for two days. When he decided to carry out more killings, Zackary Randalls was the first to die, police say.</p>
<p>Muhammad is accused of walking up to a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric truck and firing into the passenger seat. Randalls, 34, had just started work as a customer-service representative and was doing a ride-along, something he was excited about, friends said.</p>
<p>Mark Gassett, 37, was shot next, just after he had picked up groceries at a Catholic Charities building. The gunman pumped two more rounds into Gassett as he lay on the ground.</p>
<p>Next, Muhammad shot toward a bus stop after spotting three white men, police said. They scattered, and , authorities said Muhammad picked the one who was older and appeared heavier: David Jackson, 58.</p>
<p>Muhammad fired 17 rounds in less than two minutes, police said. With help from acoustic sensors, officers in the area arrested him within minutes of the gunfire ringing out.</p>
<p>He has a long criminal history and filled his social media feeds with posts about black separatism, reparations and "white devils."</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fresno-california-shooting-spree-2017-4" >Gunman accused of killing at least 3 in California shooting allegedly targeted white men</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-suspect-charged-with-3-counts-of-murder-in-fresno-rampage-2017-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-thai-man-murders-child-kills-himself-on-facebook-live-2017-4A Thai man reportedly livestreamed the murder of his child and his suicide on Facebook (FB)http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-thai-man-murders-child-kills-himself-on-facebook-live-2017-4
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<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/58a4a19201fe5877368b457f-1740/undefined" alt="Facebook magnifying glass logo" data-mce-source="Reuters"></p><p>Bangkok (AFP) - A man in Phuket filmed himself killing his child and then himself on Facebook Live, Thai police said Tuesday, the latest example of the social network's livestreaming function being used to broadcast grisly crimes.</p>
<p>Officers on the southern resort island said they were alerted to the video by friends of the man and rushed to an abandoned hotel near the international airport on Monday afternoon.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"They had already died when I arrived there," Lieutenant Jullaus Suvannin, one of the first on the scene, told AFP, adding a smartphone was found propped up against a wall.</p>
<p>Police said they believed the man had previously argued with the mother of the murdered child, an 11-month girl. The man had hung himself and his daughter, they said.</p>
<p>Channel 3 television broadcast footage of the child's distraught mother, flanked by relatives, picking up both her daughter's body and the man's corpse from the local hospital on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Facebook was not immediately available for comment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The killing comes just days after Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed to work to keep the world's leading social network from being used to propagate harrowing acts like murder and suicide.</p>
<p>Zuckerberg was responding to pressure after a man in the US state of Ohio used Facebook Live to broadcast footage of himself walking up to a stranger in the street and shooting him dead.</p>
<p>The killer went on to fatally shoot himself after a massive manhunt and police chase.&nbsp;</p>
<p>During a speech last Wednesday Zuckerberg conceded that Facebook had "a lot of work" to do on the issue.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"We are going to work on building common ground, not just getting more opinions out there," he added.</p>
<p>Phuket's governor called on Thais not to share the four-minute clip of the murder and suicide, copies of which could still be found on the social network on Tuesday afternoon.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-live-google-search-results-highlight-a-worrying-trend-2017-4" >Deaths on 'Facebook Live' are becoming a worrying trend</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:24:00 -0400Business Insider
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/54ca8a0aeab8ea0d40b2c8a3-600-/aaron-hernandez-in-handcuffs-5.jpg" alt="aaron hernandez in handcuffs" width="600" border="0"></p><p>Former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-hernandez-killed-himself-in-prison-2017-4" target="_blank">found dead of an apparent suicide</a> in his jail cell on Wednesday, authorities say.</p>
<p>Hernandez was serving a life sentence for killing the semiprofessional football player Odin Lloyd, 27, whom Hernandez knew socially, in 2013.</p>
<p>Last week, Hernandez was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-hernandez-acquitted-double-slaying-2017-4" target="_blank">acquitted in a separate murder case</a> stemming from the death of two men in a 2012 drive-by shooting that prosecutors felt were linked to Lloyd's death. While the acquittal did not affect the Lloyd case directly, some legal experts felt it could have assisted Hernandez's chances in an appeal, since it was considered part of the motive.</p>
<p>In the opening statements of the Lloyd trial, the prosecution, led by assistant district attorney Patrick Bomberg, laid out its argument — that Hernandez and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hernandez-associates-charged-2014-4">two of his associates</a> drove Lloyd to an industrial park close to Hernandez's house and fatally shot him six times.</p>
<p>Through a variety of physical evidence, including video surveillance of Hernandez the morning of the murder, the state successfully argued that Hernandez "orchestrated" Lloyd's death.</p>
<p>The whole situation allegedly began with a text exchange.</p>
<h2>Text messages</h2>
<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/54ca7f596da811293f01e846-635-351/screen shot 2015-01-29 at 12.16.58 pm.png" alt="Aaron Hernandez trial text messages" width="800" border="0"></p>
<p>The screenshot above shows text messages from Hernandez (labeled as "Dis N----") on Lloyd's phone. The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-hernandez-odin-lloyd-texts-2013-7">whole conversation</a>, permissible as a result of a search warrant against Hernandez, reads:</p>
<p><strong>Hernandez (9:05 p.m.):</strong> "I'm coming to grab that tonight u gon b around I need dat and we could step for a little again"</p>
<p><em>[no answer]</em></p>
<p><strong>Hernandez (9:34 p.m.):</strong> "Waddup."</p>
<p><strong>Lloyd (9:37 p.m.):</strong> "Aite, where."</p>
<p><strong>Hernandez (9:39 p.m.):</strong> "idk it don't matter but imma hit u when I'm dat way like Las time if my phone dies imma hit u when I charge it which will be in a lil."</p>
<p><strong>Lloyd (10:00 p.m.):</strong> "Aite idk anything goin on"</p>
<p><strong>Hernandez (10:13 p.m.):</strong> "I'll figure it out ill hit u on way."</p>
<p><strong>Lloyd (12:22 a.m.):</strong> "We still on."</p>
<p>The exchange implied that Hernandez had invited Lloyd out the night of his death. Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, tried to spin the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men in hopes the jury would question Hernandez's motive for the crime.</p>
<h2>Video surveillance</h2>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54ca7faa6da8112e3f01e846-630-354/screen shot 2015-01-29 at 12.26.08 pm.png" alt="Aaron Hernandez trial rental car " width="800" border="0"></p>
<p>The image above shows a Nissan Altima, rented in Hernandez's name, outside Lloyd's house at 2:33 a.m. on June 17, the day of Lloyd's death. Hernandez allegedly picked Lloyd up, and the prosecution showed a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-hernandez-left-evidence-in-rental-car-2013-6">series of text messages Lloyd sent to his sister</a> indicating he was with someone referred to as "NFL" before he died.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54ca7fc8eab8eaca0eb2c8a6-631-357/screen shot 2015-01-29 at 12.29.09 pm.png" alt="Aaron Hernandez arriving home" border="0"></p>
<p>Shortly after that, video surveillance shows Hernandez returning home, without Lloyd. Hernandez apparently lives a "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-hernandez-left-evidence-in-rental-car-2013-6">two-minute drive</a>" from the industrial park where Lloyd's body was found.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54ca80d469bedde30442ee49-633-352/ah with gun.png" alt="Aaron Hernandez with gun" border="0"></p>
<p>The screenshot above, from Hernandez's personal home-surveillance footage, showed Hernandez walking through his house, shortly after returning without Lloyd, carrying a dark shape in his hands. The prosecution wanted the jury to believe it was a gun — a Glock, even more specifically.</p>
<p>Although police never recovered the weapon used to shoot Lloyd, five .45-caliber shell casings were found at the scene of the crime. The investigation also found that the same firearm, with characteristics consistent with a Glock, fired all the shots, according to Bomberg. Another casing, found in the Nissan Altima that Hernandez rented, showed evidence of the former Patriot's DNA.</p>
<p>More evidence linking Hernandez to the crime emerged after opening statements.</p>
<h2>During the trial</h2>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/552e87bd6da811ea7c411a51-598-299/aaron-hernandez-bubble-gum-2.jpg" alt="Aaron Hernandez bubble gum" width="800" border="0"></p>
<p>The image above, from the trial, shows <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bubblegum-in-aaron-hernandez-trial-2015-2#comments">blue bubble gum stuck to the shell casing</a> of a .45-caliber handgun, which matched several casings police bagged near Lloyd's body, North Attleboro police detective <a href="http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/north-attleboro-detective-testifies-about-blue-bubble-gum-in-aaron/article_906ae204-b794-11e4-8f1a-abfce44ff957.html">Michael Elliott told the court</a>.</p>
<p>Elliot also testified that a worker at a car-rental company told him she had thrown away several items from a Nissan Altima rented in Hernandez's name, The Sun Chronicle reported. Police searched the trash bin and found the blue bubble gum attached to a shell casing.</p>
<p>Keelia Smith, the manager of the North Attleboro Enterprise, testified that she found the items and threw them away. <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/02/aaron_hernandez_murder_trial_testimony_hinges_on_bubble_gum">She also told the court</a> that Hernandez, at some point, offered her a piece of blue bubble gum, according to the Boston Herald.</p>
<p>Prosecutors had proof that Hernandez bought <a href="http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-aaron-hernandez-murder-trial-day-9-20150217-story.html">Blue Cotton Candy Bubblicious bubble gum</a> at a gas station hours before Lloyd's death, according to the Hartford Courant.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54e384caeab8ea8e2a3e4919-599-299/white-towel-aaron-hernandez-1.jpg" alt="white towel Aaron Hernandez" width="800" border="0"></p>
<p>The trial image above shows North Attleboro Police Detective Daniel Arrighi looking into a paper bag with a towel found near Lloyd's body.</p>
<p>Surveillance footage taken the night of Lloyd's death showed one of Hernandez's alleged accomplices (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hernandez-associates-charged-2014-4">who face their own trial</a>) at a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-towel-found-by-ex-nfl-stars-alleged-victim-seen-in-video-lawyer-2015-2">gas station with the same towel</a> around his neck.</p>
<h2>The failed defense</h2>
<p>In criminal trials, the burden of proof lies with the prosecution, meaning the jury had to find Hernandez guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt." Motive for the crime makes up a significant portion of that argument, and during the trial the defense tried to stir up doubt about Hernandez's reasons for killing Lloyd.</p>
<p>At the time, Hernandez had a $41 million contract with the New England Patriots and was making wedding plans with his girlfriend, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/police-aaron-hernandezs-girlfriend-helped-hide-evidence-2013-8">Shayanna Jenkins</a>.</p>
<p>On top of that, the defense said, Hernandez and Odin were close friends who smoked marijuana and chased women together. Lloyd, known as the "blunt master," even rolled weed for Hernandez, Fee mentioned casually during opening statements.</p>
<p>"In June of 2013," Fee said, "Aaron Hernandez was planning a future, not a murder." The defense later shocked the jury during closing statements by acknowledging <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/defense-attorney-ex-nfl-player-aaron-hernandez-witnessed-the-shocking-killing-but-didnt-know-what-to-do-2015-4">Hernandez was present when Lloyd was killed</a> but "didn't know what to do."</p>
<p>Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.</p>
<p><em>Christina Sterbenz and Cork Gaines contributed to this report.</em></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-hernandez-murder-timeline-2013-6" >Prosecutors detail how nfl star Aaron Hernandez allegedly 'orchestrated the execution' of Odin Lloyd</a></strong></p>
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